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June 29, 2018 at 11:04 pm
What are your thoughts on this newly floated “oppositional defiance disorder”? I had a coworker casually mention to me on the recent diagnosis of her two year old nephew due to his inexplicable lack of cooperation with his parents. I was baffled- my mother always referred to “the terrible two’s” when speaking of her children, as if to say it is about the age children truly begin to understand the power of the word “no” in combination with hellish temper tantrums. Reasonable discipline and growing seem to do away with it. I was shocked to hear the basic testing of limits and roles that children do is now being pathologized. But I have no expertise and perhaps they are referring to something else.